Oh Saint Rafqa, Bride of Jesus Christ! You who held your cross with love and joy until your shoulders were loaded with pain, thus you honored Jesus’ shoulder wound, on which He held our heavy sins.
We implore you to provide us, through your prayers, with: cure for our souls and bodies, blessing for our families, enlightenment for our youth, comfort for our beloved deceased, and grant us, to honor like you, Jesus’ wounds all the days of our lives and to glorify with you, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, and especially the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Please, present our prayers to them, now and forever. Amen
St. Rafqa used to pray the prayer of St. Bernard to the Shoulder Wound everyday, and used to tell all her sisters not to forget this wound! She called it the sixth wound, and prayed every day 6 Pater, Ave and Gloria, in honor of Jesus’ Wounds. She is shown caring the cross, because all her sufferings were united with Jesus’.
St. Rafqa, pray for us!